Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Magical Milk Pic-o-the-Week

"I loved nursing my oldest son, but realized way too late I should have taken a picture of it. After losing four babies I thought I would never again have the joy of nursing a child. We found out last June we were expecting a baby again. We were not sure what God had planned for us, but were thrilled when we found out the baby was a girl. We experienced many complications including Intrauterine Growth Restriction. She wasn't getting the nutrients she needed from the placenta. The doctors prepared us for the worse. We responded with prayer, as did thousands around the world for us. On January 29th, our daughter, Abigail was born at 35 weeks. She weighed 3 pounds and 5 ounces. She amazed doctors and nurses by breathing on her own. Ten hours after her birth, against all of the odds, I went to the NICU and nursed Abby. She is an amazing little miracle and I'm taking thousands of pictures, including this one of her first time breastfeeding."

I saw that pick and thought, "What a teensy baby! Or, does it just look like it because I am nursing a two year old? Oh, good, it's a preemie. I haven't lost all perspective after all." Lol. Love these posts.

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years of drivel

"My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.
Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I,of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories, in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally."